Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We're not ready
Bill Gates: ¿La próxima epidemia? No estamos listos
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation. Full bio
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era una guerra nuclear.
was a nuclear war.
down in our basement,
un barril como este
y comer lo que hubiera en el barril.
hunker down, and eat out of that barrel.
of global catastrophe
in the next few decades,
10 millones de personas
probablemente será un virus muy infeccioso
a highly infectious virus
in nuclear deterrents.
en disuasivos nucleares.
in a system to stop an epidemic.
en sistemas para detener epidemias.
para la próxima epidemia.
in the newspaper,
han leído en la prensa
through the case analysis tools
con las herramientas de análisis de casos,
para la erradicación del polio.
that didn't work well enough,
no funcionara adecuadamente,
didn't have a system at all.
ningún sistema.
key missing pieces.
bastante obvias.
ready to go, who would have gone,
listos a viajar, que hubiesen ido,
seen how far it had spread.
y qué tanto se había expandido.
impresos en papel.
before they were put online
de ponerlos en internet
de médicos listos a viajar.
de preparar a la gente.
did a great job orchestrating volunteers.
organizando a los voluntarios.
than we should have been
mucho más lentos de lo debido
into these countries.
hacia esos países,
to have hundreds of thousands of workers.
cientos de miles de trabajadores.
to look at treatment approaches.
nuevos métodos de tratamiento.
what tools should be used.
debían usarse.
taken the blood of survivors,
tomado sangre de sobrevivientes,
back in people to protect them.
a la gente sana, para protegerla.
are really a global failure.
but not to do these things I talked about.
para monitorizar las epidemias,
de lo que estoy hablando.
epidemiologists ready to go,
bien parecidos, listos a viajar,
but that's just pure Hollywood.
Pero eso es solo en Hollywood.
could allow the next epidemic
podría hacer que la próxima epidemia
more devastating than Ebola
que la de ébola.
of Ebola over this year.
y cómo se difundió este año.
West African countries.
de África Occidental.
it didn't spread more.
no se expandió más.
of heroic work by the health workers.
de los trabajadores de salud.
prevented more infections.
y prevenían más infecciones.
that they're bedridden.
que estará en cama.
into many urban areas.
no llegó a muchas áreas urbanas.
more urban areas,
muchas más áreas urbanas,
would have been much larger.
habría sido mucho mayor.
podemos no tener la misma suerte.
feel well enough while they're infectious
los transmisores no se sientan mal
or they go to a market.
una epidemia natural, como el ébola,
a natural epidemic like Ebola,
make things a thousand times worse.
que podrían hacerlo todo mucho peor.
of a virus spread through the air,
de un virus que se propaga por el aire,
very, very quickly.
muy, muy rápidamente.
died from that epidemic.
de personas murieron en esa ocasión.
a really good response system.
sistema de respuesta bien eficaz.
and technology that we talk about here.
la tecnología de las que tanto hablamos.
and get information out to them.
información al público.
where people are and where they're moving.
a la gente y ver cómo se moviliza.
the turnaround time to look at a pathogen
el tiempo de estudio de patógenso
that fit for that pathogen.
y vacunas que ataquen esos gérmenes.
into an overall global health system.
de un sistema mundial general de salud.
on how to get prepared
de cómo prepararnos
todo lo referente a la guerra.
waiting to go.
de tiempo completo, listos a desplazarse.
us up to large numbers.
aumentar el número enormemente.
that can deploy very rapidly.
que pueden activarse con gran rapidez.
para ver si la gente está bien entrenada;
to check, are people well trained?
about fuel and logistics
los combustibles y toda la logística
absolutamente listos a desplazarse.
we need to deal with an epidemic.
que hacer para las epidemias.
in poor countries.
de salud fuertes en los países pobres.
can give birth safely,
dar a luz de manera segura,
the outbreak very early on.
desde el principio.
de reserva médica;
the training and background
el conocimiento y el entrenamiento,
con todas las habilidades.
medical people with the military.
estos médicos con los militares,
to move fast, do logistics
para moverse rápidamente,
ensayar campañas antigérmenes,
so that we see where the holes are.
dónde están los agujeros.
una campaña antigérmenes en EE. UU.
was done in the United States
and it didn't go so well.
gérmenes 1, gente 0.
in areas of vaccines and diagnostics.
investigación y desarrollo
los virus adeno-asociados
like the Adeno-associated virus,
y con gran rapidez.
de lo que esto podría costar,
for what this would cost,
comparado con el daño potencial.
compared to the potential harm.
if we have a worldwide flu epidemic,
una posible epidemia mundial de gripa,
by over three trillion dollars
3 billones de dólares
and millions of deaths.
beneficios bien significativos
offer significant benefits
para las grandes epidemias.
la investigación y el desarrollo,
global health equity
la desigualdad en el tema de salud
as well as more safe.
y más seguro este mundo.
be a priority.
debe ser una prioridad absoluta.
ni meternos en los sótanos.
or go down into the basement.
because time is not on our side.
porque el tiempo corre.
that can come out of the Ebola epidemic,
puede derivarse de la epidemia de ébola;
de despertador, para que nos alistemos.
warning, a wake-up call, to get ready.
for the next epidemic.
listos para la próxima epidemia.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bill Gates - PhilanthropistA passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation.
Why you should listen
Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, quant, artist, media maven, nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today.
In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his tech-centric strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade.
Read a collection of Bill and Melinda Gates' annual letters, where they take stock of the Gates Foundation and the world. And follow his ongoing thinking on his personal website, The Gates Notes. His new paper, "The Next Epidemic," is published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
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